News Intel's Lunar Lake reference laptops aim to improve power efficiency with Cirrus Logic hardware

[Admin]

Cirrus Logic will be contributing its latest audio and power converter components to Lunar Lake laptops.

Intel's Lunar Lake reference laptops aim to improve power efficiency with Cirrus Logic hardware : Read more

 

[TerryLaze]

Confused it with Cyrix for a bit and almost got a heart attack.

 

[Order 66]

Confused it with Cyrix for a bit and almost got a heart attack.

I'm sorry, but I would love to know what you are referring to. I haven't been in the technology space long (5 years) and would love to know what you're talking about.

 

[kwohlt]

Perhaps the most interesting rumor about Lunar Lake is its use of TSMC's 3nm node, instead of Intel's 18A process, which was previously thought to be the most likely candidate.

18A isn't debuting in any products until the second half of 2025. So LNL, which is a 2024 H2 product, was never expected to be on 18A

 

[TerryLaze]

I'm sorry, but I would love to know what you are referring to. I haven't been in the technology space long (5 years) and would love to know what you're talking about.

Cyrix is a company that made CPUs waaay back in the day, they have been out of business since the 90ies I think.

 

[bit_user]

Cyrix is a company that made CPUs waaay back in the day, they have been out of business since the 90ies I think.

We had a Cyrix FasMath x387-compatible math coprocessor, in the family PC. My dad installed it to accelerate CAD. It was supposedly faster than an Intel 80387.

Interestingly, AMD bought the last true shred of Cyrix, back in 2006, in the form of the Geode SoC product line. I wonder how much engineering talent or IP (if any) would live on to form part of Zen. Or, maybe at least the Bobcat/Jaguar/Puma low-power cores that ended up in PS4 and XBox One? It would make some sense for those to have come out of the Geode team, I suppose.

Geode (processor) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[bit_user]

I haven't been in the technology space long (5 years) and would love to know what you're talking about.

From Wikipedia:

"In the early 1990s, Cirrus Logic became a supplier of PC graphics chips ..."
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I think this is where a lot of us know them from. According to the same wikipedia page, they left that market in 1998. It outlines their graphics products in more depth, if you're curious. Or, you can find an in-depth look at their graphics swan song, the Laguna3D, here:

https://vintage3d.org/cirrus.php
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